The influence of the molecular weight on the thermotropic alignment and self-organized structure formation of branched side chain hairy-rod polyfluorene in thin films

Macromolecules

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 2744-2753

  Knaapila, Matti ^a   Stepanyan, Roman ^b   Lyons, Benjamin P ^a   Torkkeli, Mika ^c   Hase, Thomas P A ^a   Serimaa, Ritva ^c   Güntner, Roland ^d   Seeck, Oliver H ^e,f   Scherf, Ullrich ^d   Monkman, Andrew P ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WUPPERTAL   (Germany)

^e FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^f DESY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); CRYSTALLIZATION; DOPING (ADDITIVES); GLASS TRANSITION; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; ORGANIC POLYMERS; THIN FILM TRANSISTORS; THIN FILMS;

MULTIDOMAIN STRUCTURE; POLYFLUORENE; SELF-ORGANIZED STRUCTURE; THERMOTROPIC ALIGNMENT;

PLASTIC FILMS;

EID: 20144388065     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma0477403     Document Type: Article

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